Application of Dailey

RECHT, Justice:

The matter is before this Court upon a certified question from the Circuit Court of Cabell County that challenges the constitutionality of W.Va.Code 61-7-4 (1995), the statute that empowers the various circuit courts of this State with the authority to issue a license to carry a concealed, deadly weapon. The precise constitutional challenge is whether the Legislature, through the valid exercise of its police powers to reasonably regulate the right of a person to carry a concealed, deadly weapon, unlawfully delegated those powers to the judicial department in contravention of…